14. future tenses of verbs

Future tenses are even simplerthan the past tenses. The only verb having its own uncomposed future tense is byti (to be). Please, learn it.

budu

I will be

budemo

we will be

budeš

you will be

budete

you will be

bude

he/she/it will be

budut

they will be

The future tense is created by the personal future form of the verb byti (to be) and the infinitive.

example:

budu pisati = I will writebudemo dělati = we will dobudeš slyšeti = you (sg.) will hear

As an optional alternative, You may use the verb hotěti (to want) instead of the verb byti (to be).

example:

hoču pisati = I will write, I want to writehočemo dělati = we will do, we want to dohočeš slyšeti = you (sg.) will hear, you want to hear

prior future tense

This is the future tense being before another future event. This additional future tense is created by the personal future form of the verb byti (to be) and the L-participle.

example:

budu pisal = I will writebudemo dělali = we will dobudeš slyšel = you (sg.) will hear

symmetric system of Interslavic future, present andpast tensesIf we do not assumea simplifiedsystem with onlyone past tense (either simple or composed), we can define the complex symmetric system of six tenses in three time levels: the future level and the present level and the past level.

future tense (e.g. budu dělati, budeš dělati, ...) - this is some time in the future

prior-future tense (e.g. budu dělal, budeš dělal, ...) - this is another auxiliary time just before the future tense, but related to the future tense

present tense (e.g. dělaju, dělaješ, ...) - this is the actual time of the present

prior-present tense (e.g. jesm dělal, jesi dělal, ...) - this is another auxiliary time just before the present tense, but related to the present tense

past tense (e.g. dělah, dělaše, ...) - this is some time in the past

prior past tense (e.g. běh dělal, běše dělal, ...) - this is another auxiliary time just before the past tense, but related to the past tense